Eagles’ Lane Johnson still irritated by Pats’ ‘arrogance’

Lane Johnson is a world champion, the star right tackle of the unquestioned victors of Super Bowl LII. But Johnson remains peeved by how the New England Patriots treated his Philadelphia Eagles in the lead-up to February’s big game.

“Here’s what pissed me off,” Johnson prefaced to “Stone Cold” Steve Austin of all people on the wrestler’s podcast. “The Patriots, obviously, I respect their coach, I respect Bill [Belichick], I respect Tom Brady, but just because the way that they won the Super Bowls, the Patriot Way, is that how everybody else is supposed to do the same thing? No, it’s not. And that’s what I got mad at, the arrogance by them.

“There was obviously some stuff behind closed doors. Their owner talking s— to our owner. Bill talking s— to our head coach [Doug Pederson] before the game. I’m not going to say it, but a lot of s— kind built up to that, and I just got tired of hearing about it, man, to be honest.”

This isn’t the first time in the aftermath of the Eagles’ 41-33 victory over the Pats that